Business Partnering:

• Build strong relationships with commercial teams to understand business drivers and support strategic initiatives, while highlighting areas of change or areas of approvement.
• Provide Commercial Finance support for new pricing decisions, promotional activity and customer negotiations including P&L reviews and volume projections, with a focus on understanding return on investment.
• Attend regular commercial meetings, offering financial guidance and challenge to ensure targets are robust and met.

Reporting & Analysis:

• Review daily, weekly, and monthly sales and margin reports highlighting key trends and variances, along with areas of challenge.
• Perform detailed variance analysis on actual versus prior year and planned performance, identifying areas of risks and potential opportunities.

Forecasting & Planning:

• Support the Commercial Finance team with the preparation of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plans for the UK business.
• Collaborate with commercial teams to ensure alignment of financial plans with business strategy.

Operational Finance Support:

• Drive improvements in reporting processes, data quality and financial systems.
• Champion the use of Power BI and other analytics tools to enhance business insight and efficiency.
• Support the Commercial Finance team with ad-hoc analysis, scenario modelling and CPI implementations.

Governance & Controls:

• Ensure compliance with internal controls and financial policies.
• Assist with all Internal and external audit requirements.